Re: Lilypond 2.16 fedora 17

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, James wrote:

> > Any chance Lilypond 2.16 will be accepted in Fedora 17 ?

> You need to talk to the/a Fedora Maintainer to get them to package it.
> No one as far as I know who contributes to the LP project does this
> actively.
>
> I'm not that technically savvy on this topic, but I seem to recall
> that because of LP's use of Guile 1.8 and not Guile 2.0 that it caused
> some headaches (they are not (very/at all) backward compatible) for
> another distribution package maintainer.


It looks that the soon to be released Fedora 17 will still have guile 
1.8.8, due to compatibility problems with for example Lilypond:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678238

which should give the Lilypond developers some more time to work towards 
guile 2.x

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MT